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W. A. KEYS & J. LOGKWOOD.

BUCKLE. a No 296,182. Patented Apr. 1, 1884.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

\VILLIAM A. KEYS AND JARED LOGKW'OOD, OF NEv/V YORK, N. Y.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,182, dated April 1, 1884.

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clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in buckles; and the invention consists in a buckle combined with a device whereby the buckle may be disengaged from the fabric which is held by it, substantially as is hereinafter more particularly shown, described, and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a plan or top view of our improvement applied to a lever-buckle. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of same on line a: m. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of our invention applied to-a prong-buckle, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal section of same on line 3 4 Fig. 5 is atop plan view ofa modification, and Fig. 6 a longitudinal section of same, on line .2 z.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several. figures.

This invention is designed to obviate the difficulty so well known of disengaging a buckle from the fabric in which it is employed, particularly when the buckle is applied to neckties, scaris, and the like neck-wear where the buckle engages with soft silks and satins. In such applications of the buckle, and when the scarf is around the neck of the wearer, it is exceedingly difficult to disengage it from the strap of the scarf. Now, for the purpose of facilitati mg the disengagement of the bucklawe provide it with alifting-piece projecting above the plane of the tongue or prongs, to be readily engaged by the fingers or thumb, and arranged between the points of the tongue or prongs and the pivot or pivots of the same. In Figs.

1 and 2 this lifting-piece A is a tongue of metal separated on three sides and raised from the 4 body of the metal of the lever b, between its points a a and its fulcrum.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the ordinary prong-buckle is provided with a bridge-piece attached to its prongs, between their points and pivots, and 5 having an upturned edge, as shown.

In Figs. 5 and (i the lifting-piece is made as upward bends of the prongs between their points and pivots, as shown. By a backward and upward pressure on this lifting-piece A, in 5 either form shown, the points cc of the buckle are readily disengaged from the strap without loss of time and very expeditiously.

\Ve are aware that lever-buckles have here tofore been made with a thumb-piece extend- 6 ing rearwardly of the fulcrum, for lifting the prong or pin out of a hole made in a leather strap to receive it; and we are also aware that a sheet-metal lever-buckle has had a lifting proj eotion, or two of them, arranged in advance 6 of the pin or point; and such constructions form no part of our invention; but

What we claim is 1. A buckle for use in textilefabrics, having a pivoted tongue provided with points a. 7 and the lifting-piece A, projecting above the plane of the tongue and arranged between the points and pivot of thetongue, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the prongs of a 7 buckle, of the attached lifting-piece A, substantially as shown and described.

' XVILLIAM A. KEYS.

JARED LOOKNVOOD. vVitn esses:

JNo. W. PAYNTAR, RICHARD M. CARY. 

